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Will Sarni

Will Sarni is the founder and CEO of water strategy consultancy, Water Foundry. He is also the CEO of the Colorado River Basin Fund, the first placed-based water-focused investment fund in the United States. Prior to Water Foundry, Sarni was a managing director at Deloitte Consulting where he established and led the water strategy practice. He was the founder and CEO of DOMANI, a sustainability strategy firm, prior to Deloitte. Sarni is the author of five books. Sarni is a co-founder of WetDATA and a host of the podcast, The Stream with Will and Tom. He is a board member of Flowater, Silver Bullet, Project WET and the Rocky Mountain Rowing Club. He was the Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board for the WAITRO Global Water Innovation Summit 2020 and was on the Scientific Program Committee for Stockholm World Water Week from 2013 through 2019. His advisory work includes working with the 2020 X-PRIZE (Infinity Water Prize), as a Bold Visioneer for the 2016 X-PRIZE Safe Drinking Water Team and a Technical Advisor for the Climate Bonds Initiative: Nature- Based Solutions for Climate and Water Resilience. He is also on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Water Security.

Digital Tools Now Help Address Water Scarcity

World Water Day was Sunday, March 22, and now more than ever it is time to address head-on the global crisis of water. Water is our most precious resource. We can no longer afford to…

Digital water: the end of the beginning

After a few months of processing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy and business, it is now a bit easier to start to draw conclusions and pose questions on what the future may…

Water is Critical for Business, and AI is Critical in Managing It

Access to water is one of the greatest challenges to business continuity and growth. Businesses across a range of sectors – from energy to agriculture to food and beverage – are discovering the importance of…

For Water Innovation To Fly, We Need A Skunk Works

Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Programs, otherwise known as Skunk Works, was responsible for several innovative aircraft designs. Will Sarni believes the water sector can learn a lot from the development. Innovation is lumpy One of…

Innovations in Water

For most people reading this, water is just a turn of the tap away. As we go to press alarming headlines about water scarcity in Texas are in the news, underlining just how precious and…

Why I Am Doubling Down on Digital for Water

There are and will continue to be, no shortage of lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. What sticks and transforms society, business and the public sector is up to us. We can focus on attempting to…

The Texas Nexus: What the Absence of Us Water Strategy Looks Like

The United States doesn’t have a national water strategy. It has no shortage of local, state, regional and federal regulations but ultimately no federal strategy. The country is a ship without a rudder. The U.S.…